Snow Glass Apples Sparknotes

In the retelling of Snow White called “Snow, Glass, Apples” by Neil Gaiman, the author reversed the good and evil characters of the story. The stepmother queen is now the heroine and Snow White is now this evil bloodsucking vampire. The story is in 1st person being narrated by the Queen who is afraid of Snow White which shows in the quote “I had been frozen by her, owned and dominated.” (Gaiman). The sad part of this story is how it all comes back to this quote at the end with the stepmother being put in jail as Snow White is staring at her. The winner of this story is Snow White who is saved by the prince, but in this case the bad guy prevailed while the good Queen in locked up in bars. Snow White takes everything from her stepmother, her …show more content…
She comes back to life and just in the Grimm’s version, tricks Snow White into eating apples, but in this case filled with blood and poison because she wants her castle to be safe. This shows in the story when the Queen says, “As long as the heart hung, silent and immobile and cold, from the beam of my chamber, I was safe, and so were the folk of the forest, and, thus, eventually, the folk of the town.” (Gaiman). The queen wants Snow White dead not out of envy but to protect her kingdom from Snow White. Snow White is a menace to the townspeople and desires to return to the castle not for anything else but to exact revenge and murder the Queen. Even the love story between Snow White and the Prince is peppered with depravities and malice as, just like Snow White, the Prince is not your conventional knight in shining armor, either. He is as wicked and corrupt as his lady love and finds sexual satisfaction. Gaiman turns a traditional fairytale and twists it to create a haunting tale that is very sexual. The story incorporates themes that are not in the popular Grimm’s versions including vampirism, necrophilia, pedophilia, and